haunted, beloved

adrian | evil commie fag | language nerd | she/they | #1 Millicent enjoyer

[melonwah]

[whisperingwebs]

[xanaxfarts]

A tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper

[2colde]

how having to do work at your job feels

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

[shamebats]

Emos & scene kids got this close to abolishing gender for real. I try not to think about it too much.

[shamebats]

The idea of a popular teenage subculture where girl & boys pretty much all dress the same feels impossible now but for a while it was reality and it was beautiful.

[lleyksie]

more ancient horse mamaposting

[confines]

communication

[couchnapping]

flaccid penis... it's chic, it's hip, it's the next big thing

[couchnapping]

it's the next thing

[kristina100000]

when another shy person recognizes your shyness and starts mirroring your behavior to get closer to you #HoldUp #ShitJustGotReal

[mrsterlingeverything]

Fag hags can say it. Can say their name

[mrsterlingeverything]

Fag hags can do whatever they want ‼️‼️

[fluffyfoxtails]

remember! when someone vents about racism instead of using their post to confess your sins you can simply☝️ Shut The Fuck Up

[peri]

digital selfharm is real. do NOT check up on that ex-partner/ex-friend. do NOT reread those old messages/conversations that you know will hurt your feelings all over again or that will otherwise make you feel like shit. do NOT block evade to see if you’re being talked about. inhale. exhale. let it pass and you’ll be better for it.

[pastperfectcontinuous]

I want you to write for pleasure—to play. Just listen to the sounds and rhythms of the sentences you write and play with them, like a kid with a kazoo. This isn’t “free writing,” but it’s similar in that you’re relaxing control: you’re encouraging the words themselves—the sounds of them, the beats and echoes—to lead you on. For the moment, forget all the good advice that says good style is invisible, good art conceals art. Show off! Use the whole orchestra our wonderful language offers us! Write it for children, if that’s the way you can give yourself permission to do it. Write it for your ancestors. Use any narrating voice you like. If you’re familiar with a dialect or accent, use it instead of vanilla English. Be very noisy, or be hushed. Try to reproduce the action in the jerky or flowing movement of the words. Make what happens happen in the sounds of the words, the rhythms of the sentences. Have fun, cut loose, play around, repeat, invent, feel free.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering The Craft

[plaguedocboi]

I say this as someone who loves worldbuilding, but too many people seem to believe that what makes a story good is some imaginary Worldbuilding Score that increases with the level of detail you’ve put into the linguistics and economic systems instead of, like, telling a good story.

[plaguedocboi]

Also, leaving some things mysterious and unexplored can actually make your world feel bigger and more interesting. If you can tell us everything about your fictional planet in a few pages of exposition, your planet is pretty boring no matter how much research and detail went into those pages. Allowing readers to speculate and use their imaginations is good, actually.

[impossiblepackage]

it sounds like you might just like different things than some people.

[plaguedocboi]

I mean. Yeah?

[pwlanier]

Basalt Pebble Carved as a Mouflon, Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC.

Courtesy Alain Truong

[aheathenconceivably]

thinking about when i mentioned tom and jerry by title alone to my 65 year old father and his only response was to laugh REALLY hard and say "him and that fucking mouse.." while staring into the distance. and then the conversation was over