Ember Isn't Writing

Homeless, disabled writer with severe treatment resistant bipolar type 2. Witchy vibes. Occasional fractal art. I don't post mutual aid requests for people if I don't know them extremely well. If you've never spoken to me before asking for help, I'm just gonna block you. Chapter index for The Age of Redshore, my secondary world romantasy web serial about an investigator in a world where death is trivialized, is in the pinned post.

[emberwritesbooks]

Heyo! I'm going to try to document my first drafting process on this blog under the tag #writingwhilebipolar. I also post a web serial on AO3. If you like:

Disability rep in romantasy

Gifs

Secondary world fantasy (Urban High Fantasy, to be precise)

Police procedurals

An unhinged world where resurrection is the norm

You've come to the right place!

Also if you like learning things, I guess. I share occasional writing tips.

I do tarot readings for creativity. If that bothers you, it might be best to unfollow. Everyone has their own spiritual path. ❤️

I will be sharing snips. They will have so much profanity.

Also, I have a very, very messy drafting process. If you've ever seen Ellen Brock's continuum of plotter vs pantser and intuitive vs methodological, I'm a methodological pantser. (I highly recommend the series if you've never seen it.) https://youtu.be/eryQEZImm6Y?si=omFCQ89yHpkxldr-

So there were be much talk of restarting, reshaping, etc. along the way.

So yeah without further ado, let's get the show on the road!

[wildehacked]

things in fic I'm used to people kind of faking their way through writing about:

the city of los angeles

the city of new york

sex

how drinking alcohol works

how getting high works

how a child of any age speaks

how nuclear physics work

how [my job] works

how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is

how hypothermia works

things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:

what french toast is

[headspace-hotel]

read through the notes on this one trust me

[kiragecko]

Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:

SHRIMP COCKTAIL:

banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol

generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is

#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro

And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!

POMEGRANATES:

zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple

thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute

sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.

FRUIT TREES:

zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''

salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE

baander: #cranberry trees

DOUGH/BATTER:

maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre

livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles

lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY

Some other topics:

ANIMALS:

catenarwhal: #mandatory 'how cows produce milk' mention#i'll never recover from that one I fear

piromantic: #one time i saw someone fake their way through describing how spiders behave

pluto-lichen: horses

misskittypotter: #stardew valley faking its way through what fresh fish smell like

pa-pa-plasma: #saw someone faking their way through knowing what a seal is once #i still am fucked up over that one to this day. they just straight up did not know #& they were NOT good at guessing it either like it was clear they had never googled that animal ever #& was only just now realizing via answering questions from anons that seals are not!! what they assumed. initially

SEX:

dykevandyke: #what a prostate is #and where it is located #as in. external.

dreamyeyedrose: #I remember back in the ff.net days reading an Ichigo/Renji fic where the writer assumed the penises go inside each other #and I was like “I mean I don't know how it works for sure I don't have one but idk if that's how it works”

SOME OTHER FOOD STUFF:

thetrekkiehasthephonebox: #add another one to the list bloggers#this character is cooking a salad

shosta: #still baffled about the published work that didn't know food could freeze

sun-dari: #once i read a fic where the author didn't understand cinnamon

alto-tenure: #read something recently where the author was just. blatantly wrong about spices

dramatic-dolphin: #i saw someone try to fake their way through what ramen is once. like 14 years ago.#but i remember.#i was very confused about ramen for a few months. they were writing it so authoritatively.

the-celery-stalks-at-midnight: #i will never ever forget someone putting leftover fries in the microwave to reheat them and setting the timer for five minutes

typeghost: #this sparked a memory of a hannibal fic where the author had to fake their way through writing about gravy

draculin: #the one fanfic where the author knows about coffee only as a concept wrote a character as a coffee drinker#was very interesting#I don't remember the fandom or the plot but I was mesmerized by the coffee actions and choices

11235811235811: #there's a lot of faking their way thru congee in the svsss fandom i'll also note

fishali3n: #read one where the person clearly didnt know what tofu is

emmy-everafter: #in the aftermath of shadow and bone s2 i saw a lot of people pretending to know what stroopwafels are #babes they are more like cookies than breakfast waffles #like yes there is a waffle pattern but you're not gonna cut into a stack of them with syrup and sugar#🤣🤣🤣

NON-FOOD STUFF:

red-umbrella-811: Shoutout to Dame Agatha Christie for faking her way through what a wrench is in a very popular published work.

bluebeetle: #once saw someone have a character put an entire phone book in their pocket

nonametis: #- sex talk in languages other than english #<- or just the petnames in a different language other than English

sadisticpony: #the fanfiction i saw this week where op DIDNT KNOW HOW AUTOMATIC DOORS WORKED #and that they arent in peoples homes!!! of course. also opening the automatic door for someone is unironically very funny but its not #its not like. grabbing the door handle to let someone in. helpppp

danmeichael: #reminds me of the fic with the figure drawing class where the character started with the feet. #i love you feet first figure drawing author

meowmix1100blr: #me watching this one fic absolutely obliterate what the board of directors does

vexedhexes: #one time i read an architect character making a doorway bigger by building a bigger door #what a beautiful world. #OH. also gravity falls fic where they go 'oh piedmont is in california so its warm all year round'

leveragehunters: #characters going to a beer garden #And it's literally a garden outside the pub#It was a very cute mistake

fitofpique: #yes! #grown men do not get blind drunk off two beers #but i am possibly guilty of the hypothermia one #assuming it does not make you very horny?

dadvans-likes: #always thinking abt the soup kitchen fic #the entire setting of the fic was 'soup kitchen' #and i very quickly realized #the author did not know what a soup kitchen was #and they thought that soup kitchens only served soup #fic

msmargaretmurry: #i love fanfiction #once read a fic where the characters played 20 questions #but the author seemed to not know how to play 20 questions and was just kind of winging it........ #immaculate

shakespeareaddict: #Look I know not all of us are hockey experts #But it takes about ten seconds of research or any attention paid to the show to realize #That the Stanley cup playoffs are not in fucking September

baejax-the-great: #the funniest one i saw #was someone faking what church is like #like 1. they really didn't have to write an entire church experience for their fic #and 2. they had clearly never even watched a show where people went to church #it was bonkers weird

twosunson: #things ive seen authors faking #knowing how to unclog a drain #knowing. literally any history #knowing what ketamine looks like (apparently- oregano) #(you know who you are)

waterhorseyblues-ao3: #beltane being celebrated in winter #wales being portrayed as a completely separated land from england (i wish) #characters getting up after weeks of bedrest like that dosnt completely fuck you up

violetfairydust: #i once read a fic where the flight time from london to seattle was 3 hours

purekesseltrash: One time, in a fic set specifically in Des Moines, IA, two of the characters casually drove 20 minutes to the ocean. The memory continues to delight me. I want to know where that author thought that Iowa was.

[tartica666]

Tbh in the uk usually beer gardens are actually a garden outside the pub

[manamightwrite]

What is a beer garden if not a garden outside a pub? Is there a secret second beer garden I've not been made aware of? Because, like, I was raised in beer gardens and they were all outside pubs. (Some had playground equipment, too, which was fun. One had a bouncy castle.)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[emberwritesbooks]

My brand.

[emberwritesbooks]

Resonance (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/411378645-resonance?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=EmberWillowWade 

Immortality isn't a dream anymore, it's a promise. 

Youth potions for those who have the gold to spare, free and automatic resurrection even for those who don't... this city has it all and more. 

For everyone except me. I'm too broken, too weakened by an injury that's slowly and painfully ripping my soul apart. Once it finishes, there will be nothing there to resurrect anymore. I'll be gone for good. 

No afterlife for me. 

I'd say I've made my peace with it, except my fiancé, Tenir Lynbold, is threatening to destroy my family when I die. Forcing me to be with him isn't enough; he's got to push me into despair before I go, too.

My only spark of hope comes from my ex-husband, Coruscar Larithian. Ironic, yeah? But he's a brilliant mage, a cunning opponent... and the person I love most in the world. 

There's a chance he can cure me. There's a chance he can free me. But my fiancé won't go down without a fight. 

Is it too late to find something worth living for?

[toast-the-unknowing]

the bad news: I now hate my current wip and strongly believe there isn't a single joke in it that lands

the good news: I know my process enough to recognize this as the slump that I hit in everything I write when it's like three-quarters-ish done

the bad news: the only way out is through

the good news: I do know the way out!

the bad news: yeah but it's through

[toast-the-unknowing]

making a cross stitch that says "I am funny and he would fucking say that" to hang directly above my monitor

[toast-the-unknowing]

"hey toast you stayed up past midnight because you were working on the fic and not because you were procrastinating by making a hideous pattern for a joke cross stitch" have you never met a writer before

[toast-the-unknowing]

gonna tell my kids this was live laugh love

[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[diserbillyti]

Honestly man the whole canard of "not all art is for everybody so it's okay to miss out!" when applied to disabilities pisses me the fuck off.

On one hand, if art is designed and written and presented and so on in such a way that it actually does meaningfully capture or say something poignant about the disabled world, the ableist majority audience will alienate and otherise it. One of the biggest complaints about Soma, a videogame about a slimy fishfrog wetsuit man, is that the protagonist is "dumb" and doesn't understand abstract concepts. This is a consistent thing throughout the game, he fails to grasp a number of less clear cause->effect relationships between things. It's part of his character. And yet, peoples' big complaint is that it's annoying and unrelatable how "stupid" he is.

Well mate, the game starts by beating you over the head with the fact that the protagonist has a serious brain injury. Maybe it is you, the audience member, who does not understand complex things, if you're determined to ignore that very loudly presented information. If that's the case, boy howdy you'd think you'd find this protagonist relatable what with the not understanding abstract concepts.

And this infests the whole subject of disability in fiction. I remember being forced to read "Of Mice and Men" in school and getting a shit mark when I wrote the book is ultimately about justifying eugenics and violence against the disabled, because it presents Lenny's killing of Curly's wife as an inevitable consequence of his disability, regardless of the environment and context he's in. He's constantly killing small animals by accident regardless of where they go, we harken back to the puppy he killed off-screen before the story started, and his final thought is of getting his hands on some rabbits we the audience are invited to understand he will again kill without intending to. The only way to stop Lenny's path of destruction is, according to Steinbeck, to put one in the back of his head, George-style. Ms. Terwillicutty was like, no no no it's about how men are bad to women, because engaging with the fact that Steinbeck said something evil with this dumbass book we all have to read in middle school was a bridge too far, I guess.

All disabled art or art that discusses disability is permanently contextualised culturally through a normatively ableist lens, from The Elephant Man (which actually plays with this lens intentionally, challenging the audience to see themselves as the theatre crowd who give Merrick a standing ovation just for existing, objectifying him on a basis of disablement) to shows like Criminal Minds, which present the disabled as violent degenerates fated to kill people, who must be stopped by a team of nondisabled specialists who use psychiatry to properly understand them.

On the other hand, when art doesn't engage with disablement but disabled people want to engage with that art, we are consistently told that it just shouldn't be for us, and we should accept that. They only show subtitles during special screenings at theatres. If you complain, you have to think about the precious normal people who paid good money to watch a movie without subtitles, and the notion of them going to a special screening without said subtitles instead is ridiculous.

And this is the mentality basically all the way through. And if you point it out, you have to argue uphill both ways with glass in your shoes and an anvil soldered to your nuts because normals are determined to view the presence of the disabled as some kind of collective burden they must sacrifice to accommodate, and not just another facet of the human life around them.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

so if we're not allowed to call out ai users due to "false positives"... what the fuck *do* we do about the rampant ai use then? are we supposed to just... accept the fact that people are using ai to write fics now? are we supposed to just be okay with the fact that some authors use ai??? are we supposed to just ignore it and let ai destroy fandom???

if you suspect a work is ai-generated and if that bothers you, quietly click away from the fic and stop reading the person’s works. that’s all you’re supposed to do.

even if someone does say they use ai, my advice would still be to leave them be. you can avoid their works. other people who are not okay with ai can avoid their works. harassment won’t make them stop using ai, it will just make them continue using ai in secret instead of openly. it will also just make them stop tagging their works as ai (so now people who are not okay with ai can neither avoid their works nor know for sure if it’s ai anymore).

harassment will not solve anything. and whether or not you like it, whether or not someone uses ai is not your business. no, I don’t like ai and I don’t agree with people who let ai write for them. but I can understand that people have the rights to do things that I disagree with. even if I think it’s harmful to the environment and community. I can understand that there will be things on the internet that upset me. the “ai-generated” tag on ao3 is there so that people can either seek or avoid ai-generated fics. it’s not there so that people can freely harass ai users. (worth mentioning that harassment is strictly forbidden and against ao3’s terms of service, so you can be reported if you do that. and ao3 will not take your side — because ai-generated works are allowed on ao3, whereas harassment is not. this applies to tumblr and other social media platforms too.)

the truth is that neither I nor you can stop anybody from using ai, at least not via call-out posts or harassment. and I will never condone harassment. what I can do is mind my own business and curate my own internet experience.

and as I’ve said many, many times before, you cannot know for sure if a work is ai or not. you can only guess based on vibes. and ai was trained to mimic human-made works. so every “ai telltale” is something human-writers write before, and ai mimics that.

so no, chances are that you are not actually rightfully calling anyone out and “fighting against ai”, you are just engaging in witch hunt, speculations and accusations in order to feel better, in order to feel like you have “done something”. but in reality, you are not actually “fighting against ai”, you are helping ai harm the writing community by scaring human-writers away. more and more human writers have already stopped sharing their works for fear of getting wrongly accused of using ai.

for the hundredth time, harassment is never the answer. witch-hunt, speculations and wrongful accusations harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

more here and here.

[an0neemouse]

I hate ai but the witch hunts are worse for the creative community than the actual ai is. I said what I said.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“you cannot ship these two fictional characters because—” actually I can because they are not real people. they are just toys I play with. you cannot apply real-world morality to fiction or how strangers play with their imaginary toys in their imaginary sandboxes.

you can, however, curate your own internet experience by minding your own business, muting/blocking/scrolling past what upsets you but does not hurt anyone in real life in any way, shape or form.

[disabled-primadonna]

I hope every disabled person who has been murdered by a caregiver rests in peace. I hope they all know they are loved and remembered. We will not forget. We will not forget and we will not stop fighting until every disabled person can live happily and peacefully.

I hope every disabled person, living or dead, knows they are loved. I love you. I understand you. The world is changing, progress is being made, and one day, we will no longer have to live in fear. One day, we will not need a disability day of mourning.

I love you. We will survive. Keep going.

[emberwritesbooks]

Throwback to the time @vampire-squirrel created paperwork for our roleplaying campaign. Let me try to sum up the relevant concepts. Bear with me, it's been literal years since this campaign, my memory is shite, and there is a lot here.

This is from our fantasy setting, Zosias, which has a very UF-esque feel despite it being secondary world fantasy. I think you call that Urban High Fantasy, but don't quote me on that.

Anyway, this is a case that her character, Tzutiki Vastrani, was trying to solve as part of the Redshore Intelligence and Defense Association (RIDA). RIDA is the old Thieves' Guild, and they made a deal with the city of Redshore to fund its taxes via "automatic taxation" (pickpocketing). So her character (Vastrani) is a pickpocket in the city of Redshore, but technically she's also a cop.

It says here that a "massive alterna event occurred in Chevurne, the capital city of the Solandan Empire." Basically one universe switched places or crashed into another. They call the universes "alternas."

This is concerning seeing as how Solanda is the type of country that sends its kids to military academies and monasteries before they're allowed to become citizens. But that's beside the point, the point is that my wife's character was trying to do her damn job as a low-level pickpocket and ran across a case that would make any veteran law enforcement officer instantly shit their pants.

Luckily, she got help from Laidrin Ashtree, a high elf who famously is one of the few RIDA handlers worth anything. He used this paperwork to escalate it to the Urban Pacification Squad (UPS). (Think fantasy-flavored SWAT team, and it's pronounced "ups" not "U-P-S.")

Says here it's got Mar Katoni cultists all over it. Nasty business. (Mar Katoni is a cross-alterna being who will drive you insane if you have too many dealings with him.)

I think that's all you need to be able to understand this particular paperwork? (I'm sure @vampire-squirrel is going to show up in a second and correct me, so go with what she says. 😂)

Anyway all of the complexity implied by this paperwork really makes me happy. This is why I love writing in the Zosias setting. We've been working on it for decades, and it shows.

[emberwritesbooks]

Let's chat about insurance and mental health in 🌟America🌟

Hi, folks, it's been a while. I think I probably stopped Tumblr blogging right around the time I was hospitalized in December of 2025. I'm not going to check right now. I was (am, really) in a perpetual state of overwhelm due to some medication fuckery that I'm tired of keeping to myself. Sorry, it's long and talks about a lot of meds.

Meds: The Fuckery

So when I was hospitalized in December, I was on the following meds cocktail:

Lamictal 400mg - a mood stabilizer we added to treat my bipolar.

Wellbutrin 450mg - an anti-depressant we added to treat my bipolar.

Adderall 20mg - a stimulant that treats ADHD.

BuSpar 5mg - an anti-anxiety and anti-depressant med added to treat my bipolar.

Vraylar 6mg - an anti-psychotic that is the cornerstone med of my regimen, which treats my bipolar.

Atenolol 25mg - an anti-anxiety med that works similarly to propranolol by regulating heart rate. I actually take this regularly for tachycardia more than anxiety.

Medical marijuana - to suppress PTSD nightmares.

At the time, I had been diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar type 2, generalized anxiety disorder, and PTSD.

You might look at that meds list and say, "Holy smokes! There are so many meds!! Overmedication!!!" and trust me, I know.

Each of these medications treated one part of the complex problem that is my mental health. Part of the problem was that the Northwest Arkansas area has a severe psychiatrist shortage and I spent a year and a half on a wait list until a slot opened up with the University of Arkansas Medical School (UAMS) Psychiatry Research Institute. My PCP was excellent and acknowledged that there were limitations to her expertise that included psychiatric med management, but she didn't leave me high and dry while I languished on a wait list. We learned together. Her practice closed its doors right after my psychiatrist started treating me.

So by the time my psychiatrist started seeing me, I was pretty certain I was going to be in for a rough winter. Winter is always hard for me, always a time when my mood dives into hibernation (if I'm lucky) or active torment (if I'm unlucky). This year, I could feel it coming on like a wave.

I finally had a breakdown mid-December and knew I was going to do something drastic if I didn't get help. So I called my psychiatrist and she fit me in for an emergency appointment. She talked me through the process of admitting, doing the research into where my insurance would let me go and coaching my anxious wife (who struggles with mental health as well) as to what she needed to do.

And... well. In hindsight, it wasn't a good experience. I met with a doctor there who assured me he supported the gays (UNCOMFY) before brusquely informing me that adderall, wellbutrin, and marijuana were not good meds for bipolar, therefore I would be off them. I tried to articulate my total discomfort with this treatment plan. I had been considering for a long time that maybe my bipolar type 2 might instead be severe treatment resistant depression. I didn't feel comfortable articulating that here, though, because I sensed he would brush my concerns aside. But I did tell him that I hadn't found that to be the case for me and could I please at least keep the marijuana, because it was the only thing that kept me from having the nightmares that come with PTSD otherwise.

He praised me for self-advocating and told me no. I wanted to be well, right? Therefore I needed to do what he said.

I left the meeting having cried and feeling totally unheard (as well as kicking myself for not advocating harder for my needs).

My medications at the time of discharge were:

Atenolol 50mg - the tachycardia med.

Oxcarbazepine 1,200mg - a mood stabilizer for bipolar 2.

Vraylar 6mg - still the cornerstone med.

A much more manageable set, and my mood was good. But my energy was so poor and my cognition so degraded that I couldn't function. In addition, I started having nightmares, so I informed my psychiatrist that I would be restarting my medical marijuana use. And, from there, we swapped Topamax 50mg (kind of a weird one - works on GABA) in instead of Oxcarbazepine. Then swapped it back out when it became clear that my mood was lifting since spring was coming on, and the med was literally making me into a potato.

I still felt off, but I knew from experience that as the sun comes out more, I become more able to function, so I chalked it up to that. I just needed to be patient.

Then disaster struck.

My psychiatrist sprung into action and was only able to get them to approve Caplyta 21mg - a similar anti-psychotic to Vraylar but newer, more expensive, and never tested for me.

To be clear, this was a disaster in multiple ways:

They didn't sort out my coverage until I had been out of the Vraylar for over a week.

They didn't cross-taper me.

They started me on the lowest possible dose of Caplyta, from the highest possible dosage of Vraylar.

They did this while my psychiatrist was set to go on vacation soon.

"I was pissed," my psychiatrist told me at our appointment yesterday. "I told them you had been on it for five years, but they wouldn't listen."

I went into a complete tailspin. I have never felt as bad as I felt coming cold off of Vraylar. As much as I love that med and it has relatively painlessly changed my life, when you have to come off of it in this way, it REALLY messes with you. I walked around in a constant state of Something Bad Is Going To Happen for basically three weeks. The first week, my natural cheer saw me through. This was okay. I could use my tools and redirect my attention.

But every day saw me spiral further and further away from the light, and the fears got bigger, and my ability to cope got smaller and smaller.

So, yeah, you see where this is headed, right?

I was hospitalized again on April 9th, 2026.

This time, it went much, much better. My insurance paid for a facility that allowed us time outside in a yard every day, plus Dialectical Behavioral Therapy concepts I found truly useful. The doctor listened to my concerns about my diagnosis, and I'm now diagnosed with ADHD, depression, generalized anxiety, and PTSD. My meds are:

Vraylar 6mg - and I'm so happy I have it again. The withdrawal anxiety has almost completely stopped.

Wellbutrin 150mg - which is helping me connect with my creativity again.

Atenolol 50mg - still keeping the ticker going smooth. ;)

Depakote 500mg - a mood stabilizer that works on GABA.

Medical marijuana - still helping with the ol' PTSD.

I get a little bit stronger every day. I'm hopeful that soon I will feel more myself. It takes a while to ramp up, so I have a rational basis.

So - Lessons Were Learned

Doctors: Don't treat the label. Treat the person. The doctor who heard to my concerns, took my viewpoint into account, and listened to my recommendations is the one who got me on the path to wellness. Instead of looking at me and seeing "bipolar patient who doesn't know what she's talking about," he saw, "mentally ill person who knows what medications have worked for them in the past."

Patients: Persist. You will probably have to try a few medications or go through a few doctors, or both, before you find your ideal regimen. And even then, it's not going to work forever. Expect to advocate for yourself, even when it's uncomfortable. It's your body. You have a right to answers about it.

Insurers: Listen to doctors and patients. I mean... I doubt you'll listen, but wouldn't it be nice?

And if you got to the end of this, and you got something out of it, even if it's just "holy shit that's a lot of meds," that's, uh. Fair. 😂🫣

Please comment. I do really love talking with people in the comments. And thank you for reading.

[depsidase]

[angremlin]

Also 'survival of the fittest' is a process that is supposed to render an entire species better at living in their environment, allowing ultra-rich do-nothings to arbitrarily starve the people who do the actual work is not a survival strategy it's suicide

[ladyignatius4]

Mentally making a cup of tea and giving a gentle forehead kiss to every struggling writer on my dash right now.

Your story matters, your ideas are good, and someone out there is going to fall in love with your world.

[theconcealedweapon]