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taylors best album is evermore and it isnt even close, so carry on

[deessedelamour]

can we normalize making friends by saying “abc for a friend” and then hugging

[deessedelamour]

i have heard a very common twitter thread on gameoverse and this type of "millenial" stevens-universe-esque one-liners sort of issue when it comes to dialogue, and i absolutely agree that this is an evident phenomenon that kind of makes me avoidant towards a lot of indie shows

indie writers dont you sweat a bit!!! there is a solution:

use metaphors, alliteration, personification, any more of those elements you learn in elementary school. they are worthy of revisiting through a different lense as youre older and overall these contribute the most to making characters talk less like theyre meant to be in a tumblr fandom

show and not tell. perhaps your characters do not need to speak as much and rather we can draw inferences and storytelling elements from the characters actions instead. side note, indie fandoms LIVE for this stuff so your fandom will last a long time making theories if you ever do incorporate this

take in note of language in relation to your setting. if your characters are in a medieval kingdom (rare for indie media but i digress), replacing "yeah" with "aye"--a medieval term for "yeah"--can help immersive the audience into your curated world

give different characters different lingo. a character who comes from aristocratic backgrounds is more likely to speak in escalated english as opposed to any other character, and depicting that contrast between the two elevates their character differences. or lets just say you want a character to seem grim, therefore in that case, write that characters dialogue with negative, distasteful vocabulary words

reduce the cursing (i beg!!) its beyond unnecessary and ruins perfectly fine dialogue

less words we use on a daily basis

if you want any inspiration, i highly suggest incorporating various forms of media into your free time. pick up some classic literature, watch a live action show, watch movies geared towards older audiences, listen to critical podcasts about storytelling and dialogue

[deessedelamour]

when the conversation is about reducing your meat consumption but then all of a sudden everyones stereotyping native americans to still be hunting with bare hands, everyone has a disease that means they have to eat meat, meat is now 1$ and frozen veggies are 13$, everyone lives in an area where there are no veggies, and everyone has soy allergies

and now every vegetarian is a sensitive white supremecist who hates cultures that respects the animal by using every bit of flesh and valued animals more than humans and is a terrorist because oh palm oil is also bad guys every consumption under capitalism is bad hasfjakahahkanaiuauwnnwwkk

mind you you can just say that giving up meat is hard because you get a lot of your nutrients from it (though, i admit a lot of you actually dont care about what you put in your bodies) or just simply like the taste (completely valid) without having to hide behind false information or groups of shunned people you cherry pick your care for

people love to villainize environmentalists and its scary

[deessedelamour]

soup is high dining to those with a pure heart

[deessedelamour]

star vs the forces of evil shipping discourse is like the reverse version of my hero academias

bakudeku haters: "can't two boys just be friends?"

starco haters: "can't a boy and a girl just be friends?"

[deessedelamour]

holy shit. its happening. i am engaging with star vs the forces of evil shipping discourse. someone hold me back

[deessedelamour]

star vs the forces of evil shipping discourse is like the reverse version of my hero academias

bakudeku haters: "can't two boys just be friends?"

starco haters: "can't a boy and a girl just be friends?"

[deessedelamour]

am finally watching star vs the forces of evil and ummm its rlly crazy how no one actually cares that star is like...magical...

this girl is opening dimensions left and right!! she knows of other universes!!! she's spawning unicorn hurricanes and rainbow tornados with no one questioning it!!

and no one is detaining her??

i mean i love that for her but honestly its very much something that really does plague my mind. like wow these people just do not seem to care enough LOL

i guess when you have fun villains like ludo there is no reason to have any dib membranes trying to keep her in a government facility for monitoring

[offwegointothewildblueyonder]

when a child goes to Build-A-Bear and constructs a teddy from the parts available no one bats an eye, but when I, Victor Frankenstein,

[deessedelamour]

I just went to the library and after having practically buying my books for the past year instead of borrowing, I feel like a new woman. I no longer feel the pressure to force myself to like the books I got bc otherwise it would be bearer bonds wasted therefore I can enjoy it as I wish

[deessedelamour]

everytime i open tiktok, i start to understand what redditors mean by the fact that its overrun by the most annoying people on earth

like genuinely i don't know if i can take another:

-religious 13 year old giving a blatantly bad political take

-grown woman repackaging the patriarchy and calling it dating advice

-teenage boy who think they are philosophers because they sat through a sad anime

-grown woman STILL talking about the love island cast (mind you, its been ten months and these people dont know you)

-grown men spread misinfo about epstein just to fuel their christian savior complex

-muslim man harassing women

-christian man posting about the "traditional family structure"

-"waaagh taylor swift so evil shes like hitler but my pedophile punk rock singer is a sexy man"

-ad

maybe in just in a snarky mood because my salad is so sad today. like its just lettuce and skinny girl ceased dressing...im gonna go get a side of fries

[deessedelamour]

nvm guys i keep seeing mad scientist rps on tiktok and they are actually the dopest things ever im so glad roleplay culture is still alive in this age of ai

i take back everything i say

on YOUR soul we are hopping right back on tiktok!!

[deessedelamour]

i remember loving bfdi and inanimate insanity when i was a youngin and i still do kind of have an interest in it but sometimes i couldnt take myself seriously when i talk about it in public

"yeah dude taco is stalking the contestants and shes like evil now"

and then i imagine people think im geeking out humanizing a taco bell taco and accusing it of making me too sick or something

[deessedelamour]

people will call any fandom toxic like they cant ALL be evil...

[deessedelamour]

in fifty years when all plants and animals are extinct we are gonna have to eat those mass-produced 3d printed dragon templates and framed ai generated bullcrap from renfaire vendors

ill be seasoning mine with sprinkles of those fossil fuel infested resin pyramids I dig up in my backyard

[deessedelamour]

hate it when i meet a seemingly interesting girl who uses tumblr but then i found out its just for "girlblogging" her stewpid racist pro anorexic whispers about how much she loves lana del rey and wants an older man instead of blogging about cool shit like her poetry, her writing, her art, her day, her music, her projects, her advice, her personality, her recipes, her drawings, her beliefs, her politics, her critics, etc etc etc

[deessedelamour]

everytime i open tiktok, i start to understand what redditors mean by the fact that its overrun by the most annoying people on earth

like genuinely i don't know if i can take another:

-religious 13 year old giving a blatantly bad political take

-grown woman repackaging the patriarchy and calling it dating advice

-teenage boy who think they are philosophers because they sat through a sad anime

-grown woman STILL talking about the love island cast (mind you, its been ten months and these people dont know you)

-grown men spread misinfo about epstein just to fuel their christian savior complex

-muslim man harassing women

-christian man posting about the "traditional family structure"

-"waaagh taylor swift so evil shes like hitler but my pedophile punk rock singer is a sexy man"

-ad

maybe in just in a snarky mood because my salad is so sad today. like its just lettuce and skinny girl ceased dressing...im gonna go get a side of fries

[deessedelamour]

AO3 DOWN AO3 DOWN AO3 DOWN

[is2pinky]

i just read someone on twitter saying that sevika met silco because she thought he was a lesbian and tried to flirt with him at the last drop years ago i think im gonna piss myself