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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
i don't do bad sauce passes
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Are you fucking kidding me, the smartass twink and hot werewolf aren't even the main characters of the show?
Who the fuck is Scott?
imagine my surprise when i realized this post was NOT pulled out of someone’s archive from 2012
Long ago, I read an amazing teen wolf fanfic that focused on Stiles as the main character. Loved it so much I tried the show and was immediately disappointed.
Today I was chatting with two guys and mentioned I was aroace. It went a little something like this.
A: wtf is that
B: it means she’s not attracted to people in that way
A: bro you can’t just not pick a side, that’s crazy
B: nah, it just means she’s spectator mode
A: OHHH IT MAKES SENSE NOW
I have never felt more validated or laughed so hard
It’s asexuality day!
How did you figure out that you’re asexual?
Talking with friends
A pride informational leaflet
Related a bit too much to an asexual character
The previous option but specifically if said character was Jonathan Sims
Youtube
A quick google
A much longer google
Other (put in tags)
I’m not asexual? (yeah right)
No actually I’m not asexual/nuance
In the 2010s, I took a college literature course that touched on asexuality. The mention was literally one image, and my professor, an older lesbian, didn't actually get it. I was the only one in the room it made sense to right away, which probably should have been a clue. But it didn't occur to me that that was ME, so I went on my merry way.
Years later, I watched a documentary on asexuality on Netflix. I was immediately
I then went and kicked open my roommate's door, leaped into the room, and yelled, "I KNOW WHAT I AM!!!!!!"
I was 23.
"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there
I CROCHETED A MINI MOTHMAN
LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE BASTARD!!!!
His pattern came from A Crochet World of Creepy Creatures and Cryptids by Rikki Gustafson. I got the book off Amazon.
The book has other adorable things in it, too! There's a goblin, a chupacabra, a harpy, a mermaid, Cthulhu, and more!!! Currently, I'm making a jackalope. I'll post pictures as I finish things.
I'm gonna make my nieces so many crocheted monsters... I may also include stories to go with them. I AM SO EXCITED!!!
Do you like sarcastic gay grandpas? People with dragon blood? Queer characters? Something different from the heteronormative patriarchal bull? Well then, Inarora's Excursion is right for you! Coming December 2023! Alt Text: The cover to Inarora's Excursion, which features Kaedan on the left and Inarora on the right. Kaedan is in his wheelchair, holding a hand to his head and looking worried. The room behind him is dark. On the other side is Inarora, who is gazing upward with confidence but some worry. Her fist is in a ball and her tail is curled upward. Surrounding the cover is text with arrows pointing at the cover, featuring tropes and other cool information. "Urban Fantasy", "Physical disability rep", "Queer as frick characters", "neo-pronoun using characters", "Neurodivergent characters", "80% of the cast is not white", "Cat people race", "Dragon bloods", "aroace main character", and "Sarcastic gay grandpas"
Go read my friend's book!
“clichés are bad” THAT DOESN’T MEAN WRITERS AREN’T ALLOWED TO USE THEM IF THEY SO DESIRE !!!! “avoid clichés always” YEAH UNLESS YOU THINK IT WOULD BE FUN TO USE ONE !!!!
I KNOW WHAT THE STANCE ON CLICHÉS ARE AND IT’S ALL FAIR BUT YOU AS WRITERS NEED TO KNOW THAT IF YOU REALLY WANNA USE SOMETHING IN YOUR STORY THAT IS DEEMED CLICHÉ THAT IS OK (it’s obviously also ok to actively avoid clichés. it’s about the free choice of the writer).
sorry i don’t mean to yell i’m too lazy to go back and write this all over again in lowercase but the point is. which i’ve said a billion times. do what brings you joy popular or overused be damned
it’s been over ten years and there can still be no other way to describe parker and hardison’s reaction to eliot kicking the shit out of sterling other than pleased and horny
[ID: Sketch of Parker and Hardison looking very attracted by the sight of Eliot beating the heck out of Sterling, from The Zanzibar Marketplace Job. End ID]
I love this show 🥰
people on tiktok are now vouching for replacing animal experimentation w human experimentation on the famously non-political category of "rapists" and actually having well-developed, rigorously founded feminist opinions has never been harder. i want to chew my fingers off
if you salivate at the idea of stripping incarcerated persons of any rights whatsoever to indulge in your fantasies of brainless mob bloodlust Except By The State This Time In A Girlboss Way you are a reactionary i know damn well you've never actually read any feminist literature or theory and your battle jacket w all those etsy-ordered "kill your local rapist" pins on it is about as vacuous as the space there seems to be between your ears.
moodboard of planning, writing, editing, titling and posting a fic:
"Oh yeah, I'm just super into indy writers. Lots of digital zine type content. Ebooks and a lot of pop culture commentary. Really bleeding edge lit. Transformative stuff."
[ID: A screencap of a quote, without attribution as to OP or platform. The text is "I don't really read anymore is just code for I actually read quite a lot but it's all gay fanfiction on AO3 but I refuse to tell you that under any circumstance."]
I can finish a 200k word fanfiction in three days but I can't finish an actual BOOK to save my life, right now.
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen by Johann Hari
let me tell you, i could barely make it through this paragraph, but this shit is important
Another part of the article that really grabbed me:
“At the moment it’s as though we are all having itching powder poured over us all day, and the people pouring the powder are saying: ‘You might want to learn to meditate. Then you wouldn’t scratch so much.’”
This post is about why you're scrolling past
/sigh
So I don't know why, but there is something viscerally satisfying about squeezing a Squishmallow. I was having a super shit morning until my coworker handed me her new one, which is rather large and deeply comforting.
It's a Loch Ness Monster. She says its name is Greg.
It's not an "abandoned" WIP, I didn't intentionally leave it in the forest to die and forget about it, it is a lost wip who wandered into the forest despite my pleas not to. I sit at the edge of the forest every day and hear it calling for help but there is nothing I can do. It is a haunting wip
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere … else.
But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.
Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced … they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.
No matter the cost.
This has an Ace MC?! *immediately adds to wishlist*
Some critical rules for writing coherent genre fiction, courtesy of my writing teacher, who is very wise. I don't pretend to have mastered all of these, but their application can do wonders for a story, their lack can cripple it:
Employ the causal chain - every action must be connected to what comes before and after. Each action and beat needs to have impact. They don't all need to be shown but the author needs to know what they are. It is impossible to build suspense without this principle. Things can't happen "just because" or there's no reason for the audience to become engaged with your sequence of events or do things like make predictions. All subsequent rules follow from this principle.
When showing a new type of fictional magic or science, you must show it work before you can show it break. For example, if a character has the ability to summon objects into their hand, we need to see them do so successfully and see how it works, before we see it break at a critical moment during the climax. Otherwise, the audience can't be expected to follow why this situation is unusual because they don't know how it works during normal circumstances.
When claiming a character is good at something, you must show them succeeding at it before you show them failing at it during a moment of pressure. Otherwise, we don't believe you when you establish your character's competence or badassery. For example, when saying your character is an excellent military commander, we need to see them win a fight using those skills and tactics. We can't open with a fight they lose, or else the character and author lose credibility. By all means, show the experienced hero/military leader/ruler/assassin/mage etc break down during a moment of intense pressure, fall down sobbing in terror at a truly insurmountable foe, or otherwise fail to meet the moment, but don't do this before we've seen them succeed at least once, or the moment loses impact.
During the build-up of tension, coincidences should hurt the hero and help the antagonist. This plays into the causal chain rule. Coincidences that help the hero feel cheap. Coincidences that help the villain raise the tension.
Every beat, whenever possible, should be connected to conscious action by central characters (hero, love interest, or villain). The more events are connected to purposeful action by key characters, the more satisfying the causal chain for the reader.
Avoid things that happen "just because" whenever possible. You can have one or two, sure, but the more often things happen "just because" the less interesting the story is, especially if those "just because" moments are core to the story. Fiction is not real life. Audiences are drawn to stories where purposeful actions dictate the success or failure of the characters.
I love ALL of this! It's such nice advice.
I see lots of #6 in writing in a slightly different way: description. I lost count of how many flowery descriptions I have outright skipped. A lot of description beyond a cursory bit is unnecessary to give readers a good picture. Too much and it is distracting. If it isn't important, it doesn't need to be there. If it doesn't relate to the story, why are you drawing attention to it? "Just because" or "I think it's cool" doesn't work; WHY IS IT THERE?
I hope that made sense the way it does in my head. 😅
