Because, hey...

Old enough to know better, too old to bother pretending I do. Insufferably poly, excruciatingly demi, she/they Numina on AO3

[creativecommoner0-blog]

Free to Fic Writers

I do proofreading, edits, tone-picking (eastern US), structural discussion, and general reaction/encouragement read-throughs. Your kink does not scare me. I do not fuck with AI. It makes me sad. Please just don't. I am LGBTQ friendly. I am also old, white, deserving of your skepticism, and appreciative of your patience. I probably like you already. That's just how my brain do.

I do not do voice chats, and I am not interested in writing half of your sex scene.

Please be specific about the kind of feedback you want. If you want me to just tell you what I think, I think you don't have a clear enough idea of what you want.

I'm glad that you write.

[dailymatbaynton]

[creativecommoner0-blog]

Whenever I see a pic of four or five of the idiots together (doesn't matter which) my first thought is always "my god, they've left (5th and/or 6th idiot) unsupervised!" and imagine what R&GaD nonsense is going backstage...

[orthoscheme]

supermarkets should have benches

[orthoscheme]

everywhere should have benches

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

Without the fucking hostile architecture!

[creativecommoner0-blog]

I vote yes. Are we voting? I vote yes.

[littlealexhorne]

i love how they talked abt being worried abt not making ghosts too bloody or gory, so they toned down thomas's bullet wound, and only added a dab of blood to pat's arrow

meanwhile horrible histories was regularly doing this:

[kuttithevangu]

The thing about the moon is maybe you don’t need to write a poem about the moon. The moon’s been done, we’ve discussed it. It’s a coin a mirror an eye a lantern in the darkness. It’s a rock in space. It’s the dang moon we’ve all seen it! Is there something you can notice that’s is more surprising than the moon???

[creekfiend]

[creativecommoner0-blog]

Before you, was moonah. Before house, was moonah. Everything come. Everything go. But always there. Moonah.

[bawdiestrhymester]

GHOSTS (2019)

[creativecommoner0-blog]

I love how you can tell just by looking that they're all speaking out of character... except Simon. The man has only one vibe but he can make it do a hundred things.

[creativecommoner0-blog]

Ok I was wrong about the thing I've been not-saying...

I saw this look in a BTS segment without any other context as to what it was for. As a drag look, I've silently haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaated it. I wondered what in the absolute mean-girl hell someone on the HH team had intended by doing... this. The show does transformative looks at a way higher difficulty than "make pretty young man into pretty young woman" with such consistent excellence that this, as an attempt at drag, seemed like it had to be intentional vandalism. Cosmetic malpractice. My nearest and most charitable guess was that they feared what they might unleash if they put this incredibly beautiful man in actual drag. The new-to-me context- that he is specifically playing an elizabethan actor to illustrate pre-restoration theatrical norms- fixes that in my very bitchy brain. What I thought was a bad rendition of elizabethan drag is actually an excellent rendition of rehearsal drag. There's a turn-reveal and everything. It's important to the scene that it be obvious (from the front) that he's a guy in a dress. And just like that, I'm impressed with their makeup department all over again. It takes serious skill to craft a look so she's-trying-bless-her on a guy that rolls out of bed in the morning a close shave and a soft look from passing as whatever he wants. And on top of that, his performance is marvelous. As usual, I was silly to doubt. Just wanted to get that off my chest.

[humoristics]

The ocean molded this clump of bricks into a rock shape

via

[pochowek]

real life texture glitch

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Domesticated rock has returned to the wild and become feral

[the-haiku-bot]

Domesticated

rock has returned to the wild

and become feral

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[creativecommoner0-blog]

Respect the Fanny

Amid the hubbub, can we take a second to appreciate this deliciously horrible, judgy queen? Politely cunt by name, politely cunt by nature? The raspberry in our tart? The lemon in our port? With the posture of a swing-ball pole and hair on loan from Mr. Whippy? I absolutely adore this unbodied busybody. Turns out, when you mash all four Golden Girls into one character, you get a Grey Lady. She never gets the most lines, but every one is a goddamn gem of cutting fuss-budgetry. It's rare you get a female character who is allowed to be old and unapologetically unpleasant, even when the person playing her is a writer, creator, and executive producer with enough cachet to do as she likes and enough chutzpah to lean into being gloriously infuriating. She gives us the perennial front-butt of any joke, and an absolute pitch-perfect unit of humour-multiplying disapproval. She truly is the Button on every scene. I love her. I adore Martha Howe-Douglas for crafting a Lady Fanny with such a fusty crust on the surface, and such a wealth of warmth and depth for anyone that looks closer. God love you, Fanny. May you get a sucking-off that will echo through the ages.

[a-mink-i-think]

if you were some kind of aquatic creature, would you be:

freshwater

saltwater

Voting ended onApr 11

please elaborate in the tags!! i want to know your thinking!!

[jupiterslifelessmoons]

[creativecommoner0-blog]

[creativecommoner0-blog]

As god is my witness I will make this fucking scene work if I have to kill every last one of these little chatty bastard characters to do it...

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some of y’all will be engaging in witch hunt, accusing writers left and right and then wondering why more and more writers take their works down and don’t share them with you ungrateful losers anymore.

“this fic looks like it was created by ai” yeah that’s because ai was trained on human-made works and it was trained to mimic human-made works.

you claim you hate ai because ai harms real artists, yet you are out there accusing and harassing artists because “their vibes just aren’t right”. at this point, you are the ones who cause more harm — to art and the writing community — than ai does.

you are the ones killing art and writing community, the community you want to “protect against ai”.

so at this point, you’re killing the community faster than ai does. good luck when the community you want to protect has no human-made work left because you accused and harassed genuine artists/writers away and the only things that are left for you to read are actually ai-generated fics.

[the-bar-sinister]

And if you're and author and someone accuses you of using AI in your writing, the appropriate course of action is not to engage with them.

Delete the comment and block the user.

[creativecommoner0-blog]

If I might scream into the void for just moment... This is the new bot tactic. The trolls and bots and ragebait tiktoks have figured out that this reliably gets a rise out of our little lolcow corner of the internet, trying to make use feel like it's our own community eating itself when it's really (like it has been for sixty fucking years y'all) just the fucking trolls and scammers again, picking on people for some anonymous profit motive or bullying catharsis. Starve them. Take a deep goddamn breath and laugh as you delete their comment like you're a bond villain whose trap they've fallen into. Fucking ignore them. Do not feed your high-effort responses into this low-effort bullshit. Clock. Mock. Block. Repeat.

[creativecommoner0-blog]

Just Gotta Gush for a Second

I've been keeping a friend company in the hospital, and when they've been asleep, the audiobook of Terry Pratchett's The Truth has been keeping me company. "Read" by Mathew Baynton. I say "read" because I keep forgetting that I'm not listening to a full cast recording. He fully performs every voice, and he's that fucking good at his job. And it is NOT a small cast. Included among the characters that get entirely distinct voices: The entire Ankh Morpork watch Lord Vetinari, and a man impersonating him Several other aristocrat-coded characters that don't all just sound like Lord Vetinari A prim young woman A prim older woman with an entirely distinct voice A tough young woman who doesn't just sound like a man An entire boarding house that argues about the news at mealtimes And entire community of people who live on the street, one of whom is possessed by several spirits An angry mob of distinct one-off hecklers An office run by dwarfs Several smooth street criminals who don't all sound the same Several street thugs who don't all sound the same, one of whom frequently uses an expletive that is simply the absence of a word, but pronounced perfectly every time. Dr. Strangelove if he were a wacky vampire A prim young main-character man whose voice is distinct from the narration An igor A zombie lawyer A zombie copywriter Several trolls Both Ridcullys and a talking dog... I truly can't with this fucking guy.

[dailymatbaynton]

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[bawdiestrhymester]

GHOSTS (2019)

[creativecommoner0-blog]

I love how you can tell just by looking that they're all speaking out of character... except Simon. The man has only one vibe but he can make it do a hundred things.