Why Am I Fucking An Afterthought?

Izzie. 27. They/them. Queer lil’ gremlin and legal assistant. Turns out I missed being anonymous on the internet.

[jamiemoonymarks]

Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

[fieldbears]

If I didn't want readers to chew on it, I wouldn't have spent all that time on the mouthfeel

[chrometrashcan]

forgive me father for i have sexualized an older man

[cptkitten]

dude in the other side of the confessional, smoothing back his more salt than pepper hair, tugging at his collar, breaking into a slight nervous sweat that highlights his crows feet and laugh lines: Is that so?

[formlessvoidbeast]

newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it

me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

[fozmeadows]

Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

[legit-writing-tips]

Another good post to read for those writing small human characters. 

[jennytrout]

My son was about three when he came to me in the middle of the day and said, “Mommy, there’s a knight behind the bush.” I thought he meant a toy knight or something. So I follow him outside and he goes, “Listen. Do you hear it? It’s night behind the bush.” It was a cricket. A cricket was standing in the little patch of shade under the bush, chirping. So, my son saw this dark area with accompanying nighttime sounds and decided, okay, well, that is a night right there. Their brains are incredible.

[deleted20211121]

My little bean knows she’s two, constantly saying proudly ‘I’m two!’ And the other day she saw this very frail old lady who looked one foot in the grave, pulled a face and said ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’ I almost screamed.

[cantnotknope]

I live in Korea and have a lot of international friends, and the same is true with language barriers in adults. 

*Looking at a bowl of pears* “Can you please pass me the… apple’s friend?” 

[imsopopfly]

Oh my favorite language based one was back when I was still in law school I was talking to this old Japanese man one time and he called me a “lawyer egg” instead of a law student and I still think about that turn of phrase

[beka-tiddalik]

I’m never going to forget the day I was trying to talk my 2yo daughter into wearing a dress.

Her: “No!”

Me: “awww but you’ll be cute!”

Her: “I don’t want to be cute I just want to be!”

Me: “…okay fair enough” (did not make her wear the dress).

[89cats]

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[genderqueirdo]

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*ahem* just doing my part so that @mcelroyfamilystaff knows how diverse a fanbase the boys have.

[socialpsychopathblr]

[lookataleaf3000]

[spitblossoms]

[artistofnothing]

Based off the this photo from Leonard Nimoy’s (yes, Spock himself) book of photography, The Full Body Project

Amazon.com: The Full Body Project: Photographs by Leonard Nimoy: 9780979472725: Leonard Nimoy, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Natalie Angier: Books

[oneheadtoanother]

[formlessvoidbeast]

I am such a slut for love stories where the characters never actually say they love each other and it is entirely irrelevant to the fact that it is, extremely, a love story

I don't think I'll ever get tired of writing them

[sewerfight-deactivated20250114]

Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on

[xenobotanist]

[61below]

Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:

[kingdeath000]

“My story has so much gay rep in it!” Awesome. How are you treating your female characters btw

[kingdeath000]

This post blowing up has taught me that a lot of you think that “how are you treating the character” is asking about how they’re treated within the story, not how you, the author, is writing them. I don’t care if your female characters are goddesses or superheroes, do they talk like actual people and not a cardboard cutout with tits stapled on

[ursulaklegay]

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

[kossithmercar]

Oh no, oh no, he is seducing me with his deep passion for his field of study and his genuine joy at teaching people about it

[antimasculist]

we need more masculine clothing designed to show off tits

[antimasculist]

this was about butch women but im glad u guys are having fun with ur star trek men

[decompose1]

gender euphoria is looking rly hot to other queer people and offputting to everyone else

[s1ut-pup]

“I can make him better” “I can make him worse” I can have him gripping the sheets and arching his back

[noblesse-raeva]